Dr Dino: Can Man Tell Time?

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FordPrefect said:
Dear ..., here we go again. Scientists can also generate magnetism without the use of the earth's core, who the bleep cares?
Because it proves that oil and coal production does not need millions of years of time.

Mechanical Bliss said:
If it's done in the lab, it's not under natural conditions, now is it? Oil formation depends on the organic matter to actually exist, grow, die and be overlain by sediments to create high pressures and temperatures, and weathering and erosion take a great amount of time. Furthermore, oil formation has nothing to do with evolutionary biology so throwing around the term "evolutionists" is misleading and irrelevant.
True, it's not technically under natural conditions. However, the scientists did replicate the conditions that oil and coal are produced in nature in the lab.

And while it's not a major aspect of evolution, it does take away one of the arguments for old-earth supporters- that the earth needs to be old, or else how could oil and coal form?
 
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Jedi_Templar said:
Because it proves that oil and coal production does not need millions of years of time.
If and only if humans are producing it in the lab is what you're saying. So it's irrelevant.

True, it's not technically under natural conditions. However, the scientists did replicate the conditions that oil and coal are produced in nature in the lab.
Either it's natural or it's not. How did they replicate the deposition of limestone and physical weathering of sandstones to cover the plant material? My guess is that they didn't. They probably took relevant organic matter and subjected it to high temperatures and pressures due to artificial processes. It in no way is naturally produced. I think you either misunderstood or are making things up here.

And while it's not a major aspect of evolution,
It's not any aspect of evolution whatsoever.

it does take away one of the arguments for old-earth supporters- that the earth needs to be old, or else how could oil and coal form?
No, it doesn't, and especially because oil is derived from very old organic-rich shales, yet we don't see that happening for recent rocks or quickly either. That's why our oil reservoirs are being depleated. However, old earth geology (as in, mainstream geology) does allow us methods for finding oil; young earth geology does not.
 
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JohnR7 said:
In this artical, Dr. Dino trys to show that there are many things that God does in a instant of time. For example, Jesus created wine out of water in a instant of time. Now, in the natural we all know how long it takes for nature to turn water into wine. But here Jesus accomplished that in a moment of time.
Namaste John,

no, we don't all know how long it takes for water to turn into wine in nature. water doesn't turn into wine in nature, wine is made from fermented fruit usually, such as a grape or plum.

moreover, it's your opinion that it takes an instant of time. we don't know how long it took in reality. the textual evidence doesn't indicate one way or the other.
 
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